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Secondary 1 Week 39 Update

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The children are busy in school completing the syllabus for the year before exams start. Both’s exams start in the middle next week and will go on till sometime in the middle of October. Here, exams tend to drag with multiple days between exams. They will have regular school during non-exam days. The last day of school is the end of October, just before Diwali.

They also got the results of their Hindi exams yesterday and results were as expected- GG did ok but not as well as she did in the mid-term exams, but BB failed as usual, spectacularly in fact! I really need to take him into hand and start frol basics. Hopefully this time around, he will take things a lot more seriously.

Ok, need to get them to study, so happy Sunday folks!!

Secondary 1 Week 38 Update

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This was week 1 of the last term of the school year, which is the shortest of all terms.

Yesterday was also their Hindi year-end exam, the one exam which gives me palpitations each time. As usual, BB will not pass (I swear, I will throw a party the year BB finally passes this exam!). GG said it was one paper was quite difficult, but the other one was ok, so hopefully she has done not too badly here.

This week was also the week when GG & BB turned 13! Sometime in the middle of the week, we suddenly decided to let them invite a few friends for a small party. Both kept waffling on whom to invite and when and then suddenly on Friday, we nailed it to around 6 friends coming over later today. I’ll go to the cake shop and buy a cake and maybe some pastries and order pizzas for thr children as the party is more tea than dinner. Hope the children have a good time later today…

Next week will probably be a less full week and then the exam madness will hit us!

Secondary One Week 36 Update

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Term 3 in this school year has come to an end. The children are on a week-long holiday and will go back to school on 13th September (after the Hari Raya Haji or Bakri Id) holiday and get into the business of finishing the school year with exams. Exams start around the end of the month and school ends in the end of October.

On the last day of the term, which in Singapore is celebrated as Teachers Day, both GG & BB, went to their primary school, along with other primary school friends for an alumni ‘Homecoming’ the school organised. GG had spent the better part of the week making Oreo Truffle chocolates. She made for all her primary school teachers plus some for her and BB’s secondary school form teachers. Hope it was well received by the teachers.

I also spoke to one of GG’s form teachers to ask her about GG’s chances to progress to the higher stream (the one that BB is in). The prognosis seems to be quite positive and according to the teacher, if the student does well in all her subjects, the teachers will discuss the promotion of the student to the stream and if the teachers agree that the student can cope with the vigour of the stream, they will let the student know, who in turn will speak to her parents and if all agree, the parents have to go down to the school to sign the appropriate documents.

GG wants this, so I am egging her on to do well in the end of year exams. I will leave the decision to her, but I want her to get the offer from the school as a validation of her efforts during the year.

Have a great Sunday folks!

Secondary 1 Week 35 Update

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Nothing much to update this week except for BB once again getting ticked off in school. On Thursday, I got a call from him saying his Geography teacher wanted to speak to me. When I spoke to the teacher, it turns out that Mr BB had not handed over a graded assignment, in spite of the teacher giving him an extra day to do so. His teacher is a nice person who does not want to spoil his overall grades, so even though she was justified in giving him a zero, she will be giving him pro-rated marks based on his classwork, which is around average. I was so mad at him, within the last two weeks, this is the second incident where he has shown zero interest in school!

Next week is the last week of term 3 and then from Friday it’s a 10-day break for the children before they start term 4 or ‘Exam Term’ as I’d like to call it. Both will have to go back to school a couple of days during the term break for supplementary work or CCA or both.

September is a-calling folks!

 

Secondary 1 Week Week 34 Update

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This was another week which just flew past.

I was very upset at BB at the beginning of the week. On Sunday night, just before bedtime, he came to me asking me to get a Science class test signed. He had failed in the test! And this was his strongest and best subject, one that he loves! He got strongly scolded by everyone (including his beloved grandmom and grand-aunt). I ended up revoking all phone privileges, squeezing his phone time to the minimum and also started supervising his studies again (I had given it up when they both entered Secondary school). I also spoke to his Science teacher, who also happens to be his form teacher. End result of that conversation was that his sitting place in class was changed to a seat close to the teacher and also the conversation meant that the teacher will be keeping a keener eye on BB in class.

GG started her first duty as a student councillor and her duty this term was basically patrolling the other exits of the school before the actual start of school and making sure no student enters through those gates when the bell rings. She seems to enjoy this, making new friends with her seniors.

Another two weeks for this term to end and then there is a week long term-break. After the term break, both the children will be busy with the year-end exams….